The soft singing of workers rings out at daybreak in the Congolese village of Romee, whose wooded haven is threatened by a ...

When Brazil’s President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world’s largest rainforest ...

Congo-Brazzaville goes to the polls this weekend and 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso looks set to extend his decades-long rule. At the start of 2025, the government set a target of boosting ...

The Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Forest Economy, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, has launched an investment plan for high-integrity forests in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park.

Over the last decade, towns in the north of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have seen the increasing migration of Indigenous Batwa people, according to censuses seen by ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations ...

Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are colluding with foreign logging firms to support illegal logging, harming local communities and risking the destruction of the world's ...

Washington — The Congo Basin forest ecosystem is the world's second largest moist tropical forest, second only to the Amazon, and represents about one quarter of the globe's remaining closed canopy ...

GEMENA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 31 (Reuters) - Simon Kasagana knows his meagre livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in the vast Congo basin, he has ...